Marines Suffer a Super Letdown

[TacticalPeek]

February 7, 2005

SUPER BOWL XXXIX / PATRIOTS 24, EAGLES 21

Marines Suffer a Super Letdown

One group in Iraq is unable to watch the title game because of a technical malfunction.

By Tony Perry, Times Staff Writer

AL QAIM, Iraq — Even for a force that prides itself on being able to improvise, adapt and overcome, viewing Super Bowl XXXIX was a challenge for Marines at this desert outpost on the Syrian border.

A challenge, not an impossibility.

Plans had been for an official Super Bowl party at 2:30 a.m. local time, with the game shown on big-screen television in the new dining hall (named for a Marine who played football at Navy and was killed by a roadside bomb in September).

A descrambler for Armed Forces Network was flown in by helicopter a few hours before kickoff.

...

But the descrambler failed to link with the satellite, and, while Marines and soldiers at other bases in Iraq enjoyed the Fox production, Marines here at the most remote of U.S. bases were on the verge of being shut out.

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http://www.latimes.com/sports/motorracing/la-sp-marines7feb07,1,4610867.story?coll=la-headlines-sports-autoracing&ctrack=1&cset=true



Another article from the al Qaim area:
Miles of Barren Desert Dotted With Smugglers, Insurgents

[displacedtexan]

1. You go to war with the TV descrambler you have...

not the one you wish you had.

[TacticalPeek]

2. LOL!

:)

[Turbineguy]

3. Very Drol n/t

[dvaravati]

5. greatness

:o

[DS1]

4. They should have used some rabbit ears, like the ones from

LynneSin's bunny suit :D